Commercial training provider VRSim, Inc. announced SimSpray 3.0 as the next generation of their renowned virtual reality paint training tool, which uses HTC’s VIVE Pro HMD and VIVE Trackers.

According to the company, SimSpray’s redesign offers a more intuitive and true-to-life user experience by featuring enhanced visuals, trainee feedback, and the ability to simulate larger work environments. The HTC VIVE Pro enhanced optics and visuals provides SimSpray with the most accurate visuals to provide a realistic and immersive experience.

Improved Training System

Based on years of research, customer feedback, and insight from industry experts, SimSpray delivers a training system that lowers costs and provides faster, safer, and more efficient training, according to the provider.

“SimSpray 3.0 is the next evolution in virtual skills training,” said Matthew Wallace, CEO and president of VRSim. “Through immersive learning, instant feedback, and performance analytics, students are able to train in a more efficient manner that isn’t possible with real-life training. We’re thrilled to offer this solution to our customers and the industry as the most advanced training simulation we have made to date.”

As a leading training tool for the paints and coatings industry, SimSpray uses virtual reality (VR) to create engaging and educational simulations. According to the company, the VR experience improves the learning process with tools that boost training productivity and immediate feedback and analytics that are not available in typical training scenarios.

SimSpray’s tools and feedback include easy to understand performance reports, live scoring, and kinesthetic cues. The tool provides trainers and trainees with the ability to practice, analyze key metrics, diagnose flaws, and improve their skills in a single training session. SimSpray also acts as a force multiplier for training by distilling the training experience into concise, repeatable exercises with aggressive feedback, and intuitive performance insights.

“SimSpray is the most effective tool on the market, so we’re thrilled to implement the newest version, SimSpray 3.0,” said Anton Ruesing, director of the International Finishing Trades Institute (IFTI). “Our directors of training have used SimSpray to recruit and train the next generation of International Union of Painters and Allied Trades (IUPAT) apprentices since 2009.”

Mike Komaromi, training director for the Finishing Trades Institute of Southern New England, said he looks forward to using SimSpray 3.0 in his Connecticut facilities. “SimSpray is a valuable tool that lets our trainees start learning on day one,” Komaromi said. “The paint looks and feels real. The new design of the system makes SimSpray a more capable and user-friendly tool for us.”

SimSpray 3.0 Features

Features of the upgraded tool include the premium HTC VIVE Pro HMD, with true-to-life precise tracking and a large training space to support the virtualization of larger parts and training spaces.

Other benefits, according to the company, are visual updates for paint finishes and defects for more realistic paint application and improved immersion; a re-designed user-experience with intuitive features and streamlined equipment setup; and a weighted spray gun for added realism and kinesthetic training, featuring the same functional nozzle, trigger, and dials on previous spray gun versions

The new SimSpray system also provides more user-control options, such as in-sim controls to give trainees better access to project controls and analysis, and customizable return-on-investment reports to allow users to clearly view personalized time and cost savings.

According to the provider, SimSpray is the most efficient virtual reality training tool designed for painters and coaters, offering numerous benefits for international education and industry organizations. First released in 2011, VRSim continues to work to improve SimSpray with additional processes, parts, training content, and software and hardware updates.

For more information, contact: SimSpray, (860) 893-0080, www.simspray.net